2) The following health related problems, identified by our study, has been traced to the high effort steering (resistance to movement), stiff suspensions that shake passengers, seating that does not aid in isolating passengers from the body shaking shock loads.

Mayo Clinic is studying our research results. Mercedes-Benz has joined us. You must learn of what to watch for to prevent further injuries.

Dear FOP Members and Others that spend a lot of time driving:

The Michigan State Police, Los Angeles County Sheriff, NHTSA, vehicle manufacturers, various police departments unions have been made aware of the fact that the steering and suspensions on today's vehicles are causing many new health problems due to the fact that a new medical discovery has been made, which is the fact that all human mass has ‘variable force tolerance threshold values’. The steering and suspensions exceed these values…resulting in crippling injuries.

Symptoms of injuriesHere are just some of the medical problems caused by design changes that result in mini-shock-loads that push matter through its elastic state and into its plastic state. Plastic state meaning permanent change in shape/composition.

Lower back pain, back pain between the shoulder blades, burning sensation and itching in back between shoulder blades, annoying numbness in small-ring-middle fingers, tennis elbow, carpal tunnel, bent fingers, twisted knuckles, bone replacement surgery, enlarged knuckles (do not allow the tip of any finger to ride on the surface of the steering wheel, neck pain, degenerated disc in neck, neck fusion surgery, shoulder pain-unable to move arm, chronic shoulder pain period, numbness in both hands due to vertebrae shifting in back between shoulder blades, sciatic nerve problems causing leg pain, degenerative disc disease-lower back disc rupture (usually L-4, L-5) (this happens from both the steering and suspension problems-twisting forces from steering and shaking forces from suspensions). Soreness in hips (usually appearing after 5 minutes of walking), knee replacement and chronic ankle (knee isn’t supported when generating and delivering the forces necessary to overcome the resistance in the rack and pinion steering system, lower back fusion and rod placements. The outer end of the thumb is bent outward, away from the hand…you cannot make full comfortable contact with the thumb while holding the pistol….like you used to be able to do. Your thumb is bent outward as shown in Module 2, Line Item #2 in our web site www.miketomich.com. Injuries are eminent with the steering and suspensions but more pronounced with smaller framed people. Finger injuries are usually visible within 6,000 miles.

Bouncing of the body causes depression, mood swings, inability to sleep, and chronic fatigue due to the inflammation throughout our body. Autism started to surface right after introduction of the stiff suspensions (as well as other ailments), autism is not a chemical cause...it is due to multiple vibrations shksing the embryo and injuring the nerve cluster and the base of the brain and spinal cord. Pregnant women riding in today’s stiff suspension vehicles is the common denominator. The texture wore off thesteering wheel, and it’s now slippery/smooth? Your hands are calloused? Maybe you haven’t noticed that their calloused yet? No matter what you use, or what location you hold the steering wheel…there is no safe position. The only safe choice is to have the steering changed to easy one-finger steering. Steering ratioscan be adjusted to accommodate easy one finger steering. .

The Michigan State Police and Los Angeles County Sheriff are testing and endorsing a list of vehicles for police duty which are causing serious permanent functional loss injuries or prompting surgeries that only provide limited improvement. This is a silently occurring event with no happy ending. Keep in mind that theresistant rack-n-pinion steering, stiff suspensions and video gaming all became popular at the same time, which is the reason these injuries have gone unrecognized for 25-years. Parents were using their injuries as bench marks.

The resistance in the rack and pinion steering, even when slightly moving the wheel, results in impact forces to all body muscle and joints, causing bone curvatures, bone and knuckle twisting with additional joint deformities (www.miketomich.com Module 2, #2 or click here http://miketomich.com/Pictures-Adults-Driving-Injuries-1.html) and development of arthritis. The resistance in the rack-n-pinion steering and stiff suspension cause most of the muscle/skeletal injuries we experience with our skyrocketing increases in medical expenses in our country and developing countries that are driving more. The steering resistance, and repetitive body shaking caused by the stiff suspension because the suspension does notisolate passengers from the repetitive bumps/shock loads caused by uneven road surfaces.

Just as our children develop permanent finger deformities from the repetitive motion forces pushing mass into its plastic state (all of Module 1), we also experience the same and more. Resistant steering and suspension can be traced to our new plague of muscle/skeletal injuries.Some communications with Sony Play Station Click: http://miketomich.com/FTP/OSEORIGINAL135M.DOC.pdf

Autism. The common denominator found with autistic children is the mother riding in a vehicle with stiffsuspension thus subjecting her to the body bouncing impact forces caused by the shock loading forces generated by the uneven road surfaces. Then, to further aggravate the problem, the baby is put in a hard baby seat, and attached to the back seat. The back seat bounces higher than the front, subjecting the baby to even stronger impact forces. During the depression and WWII unwanted pregnancies were terminated by shock loads generated while jumping down stairways, off running-boards, etc. Women are subjected to 7 million+ shock loads in 6 months of normal riding in stiff suspensions. Mercedes-Benz (which brought us the stiff suspension) has implemented a new electronic suspension system that isolates passengers from the shock loading road bumps. Mercedes very informative video is available at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=940wGYCeQ68&list=TLbmIs0wzxYEErIu4NZSuuw4LprgB51klD. Or click on the link on our web site in Module 4 - #1 “Mercedes-Benz "Fully Active" NEW Soft Suspension”. Electronic suspension can manually or automatically be changed to suspensions for high speed handling.

The lower back pain experienced by so many officers is due to the stiff suspension bouncing the officer. The seat belt holds the lower torso secure to the seat and as the body bounces the L-4, L-5 area separates and clashes together again, resulting in eventual decompression of the disc. The twisting generated during the human body generating and delivering the forces to overcome the rack-n-pinion steering resistance delivers twisting shock loads to the vertebrae and disc as well. Compound forces hammering the natural protective function of the disc, leading to disc failure.

What about the NHTSA, CPSC, S.A.E., General Motors, other vehicle manufactures, and political leaders in Washington? We have filed complaints…now we are loaded with red tape. Michigan’s Governor Rick Snyder, and former Governor Jennifer Granholm turn their head to this, as well as Senator Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin and numerous others. Michigan’s economy is automotive. Unfortunately, Senator Debbie Stabenow’s office says this has to be a grass roots effort before she can do anything to assist us. Can’t get past the phone screening at National Institute of Health.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN agrees with our information shown in Modules 1 and 2 (children and adults injuries) (www.miketomich.com) and they are presently conducting proper protocol studies for acceptance by medicine and science.

Module 2, Line item #B is a copy of a letter sent to the Michigan State Police, Col. Etue, to warn her of the long term effects and approving vehicles with rack-n-pinion steering and stiff suspensions for police duty . Be sure to read our letter to her as it covers more information Module 2, Line item #B or click here Letter to Michigan-State-Police-Nov-23-13.html , letter to Michigan State Police Vehicle Testing Unit: MSP Vehicle Testing Unit. Letter to Los Angeles County Sheriff Department and Vehicle Testing; LA County Sheriff.

There are two major problems you must be corrected immediately to prevent new injuries and stop continued expansion of existing hidden muscle/skeletal injuries.

Problem #1- Reduce steering effort so the wheel can be turned easily with ONE FINGER. See a short acceptable steering video at www.miketomich.com, Module 2, Line item #4. Or click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6onuD0HQSJQ

Problem #2- Isolate passengers from the stiff suspension shock loads that are allowed to travel through the passenger’s body. Passengers need to sit on a cushion to help isolate them from the body shaking forces. What I use is posted on my site in Module 4, Line item A-2, or click here http://miketomich.com/Causes-of-Autism.html

PS:A good place to start looking for the hand/finger deformities is with your children and significant other. Refer to our pictures in Module 1 when holding your children’s hands or hold a straight edge along the hand. Fingers should be straight as shown in this link http://miketomich.com/Straight_Fingers-miketomichcom.html

Vertebrae shifting, back deformities (also referred to as osteoarthritis-which it is NOT) are shown in this link: http://miketomich.com/Driving-Injuries-Back-and-Spine.html At the top of this link are pictures of two teenagers with good concave backs. The rest of the pictures are identified accordingly. These back deformities are caused by the process of generating and delivering the forces to overcome the resistance in the steering….and the total process conduced within 3/10’s of a second. This link will show you the startling change in vertebrae shifting out of position in our 13-year-old model, after he started driving with a permit for 3 months.

Please post this on your board for members.

Next time you drive, pay attention to feeling the resistance incurred when moving the wheel, and to how the bumps in the road radiate through and shake your body.

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Warning Letter to FOP'smiketomich.com

Open Letter to ALL Police Officers, Command, Agencies

This isn’t junk e-mail. This letter is being sent to you to make you aware that the rack-n-pinion and suspension systems are silently causing serious health problems such as finger curvatures and twisted knuckles and other issues mentioned in this letter and our further information for you that is posted on our web site. Your command officers have been made aware of these serious health issues. One example of suspension and steering health issue…chronic lower back pain…is not from your wallet of gun belt. Stiff suspensions cause separations of L-4, L-5 due to mini-trauma vibrations/shock loads. The stiff suspension fails to isolate drivers from the multiple shock loads caused by speed and uneven road surfaces. High effort steering transfers twisting force to L-4 and L-5 because the lower torso is secured firmly to the hard molded seating….inflammation and disc degeneration and rupture. (For now sit on a soft cushion to isolate yourself from the road bumps…your back pain will go away.

There is more information in this letter and posted in Module2 under FOP. It would behoove you to read this as injuries can and will escalate to crippling arthritis and interference of conducting police duties….and causing early workmen’s compensation disabilities.

Police duty vehicles are not safe and we have informed the two testing and approval agencies of the injuries, the Michigan State Police and the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department.

The two main unrealized dangers is in the rack-n-pinion steering and suspension systems which long term cause fingers to deform (curvatures and twisted knuckles) and hands develop arthritis leading to various hand and body physical functional losses in addition to chronic muscular skeletal pain and discomfort.

Because you spend so much time in vehicles...you must become aware of what to look for and how and know how to prevent these muscle, skeletal, and nerve damages. This link, from our web site, shows typical unrecognized finger/hand deformities from the high effort steering resistance to turning (used to be easy one-finger steering, example 1985 Chevy Caprice). http://miketomich.com/Pictures-Adults-Driving-Injuries-1.html Other steering related problems; carpal tunnel, chronic shoulder, tennis elbow, chronic lower back pain/ache (L-4, L-5 area), chronic pain/burning sensation between shoulder blades, lumpiness in upper back (vertebrae moving outward from natural position), pinched nerves in neck

In addition to Mercedes-Benz’s eliminating the stiff suspension, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN (noted on our web site) agrees with the steering and suspension problems and is presently conducting further studies.

Please read the four page document with information to you which is linked at the bottom of this letter. The best you can do, until fixes are implemented is ask your Police Department to reduce the steering effort to easy one finger steering (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6onuD0HQSJQ) and find a cushion to help reduce the body bouncy shock loads caused by the stiff suspension. Wal-Mart carries a forever comfy cushion for $20. There may be others in the market. Read the 4 page letter...it references my personal corrective action.

Today’s vehicles should have easy steering like the police vehicles in the 80’s, like the Chevrolet Caprice Classic you had for police duty that didn’t have stiff steering and suspensions that caused our chronic health problems. This short video is of easy one-finger steering that does not cause health problems:

Don’t wait for our politicians or manufacturers to help…I think you will have to pursue this matter with your command officers. The Michigan State Police and LA County Sheriff have been notified of these new design flaws. This is a new science discovery….the human body has a “variable force tolerance threshold value”. Processes that exceed the various values can and do easily result in permanent muscle, skeletal and nerve injuries. Other processes cause injuries but vehicles are the most popular. Injury areas accumulate and grow.

Back injuries from today’s stiff steering: http://miketomich.com/Driving-Injuries-Back-and-Spine.htmlSimple fix for my lower back pain that isolated me from the multiple compression shock loads traveling through my body because the stiff suspension was too hard to isolate my body from the uneven road surfaces. http://miketomich.com/Driving-Injuries-Back-and-Spine.htmlPlease read the attached 4 page document and look at all 5 Line items in Module 2 (also noted in the 4 page document).

Feel comfortable with questions… mike@miketomich.com

Yours truly…. Mike Tomich

PS: Please post or e-mail this to your members. If you wish updates on our project send e-mail to webmaster@miketomich.com

Cc: A. Sawar M.D., Professor K. Granke M.D., K. Raval M.D.

Communications to FOP Lodges 1-20-14

Informing them of Dangers of Driving Resistant Rank-n-Pinion Steering and Stiff Suspensions